Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Joel Davis

Compassion was never a strong suit of mine, but almost by default, I have become much more sensitive to people with disabilities and other setbacks,

John Challenger

Companies are starving for people with technology skills. I think people are kind of shocked. It's certainly almost taboo in society. Parents tell their kids the last thing they should do is skip college for the big money.

Josh Duncan

Coach (Sean) Miller really stresses that and it becomes more of a mental thing once you hear it you know and hear it so much. It becomes almost like a natural instinct.

Jamie McNeilly

Coach mentioned to us playing 40 minutes. We're almost there. We're playing about 36 minutes. We just need to translate that extra four minutes into positive stuff, and we'll be OK.

Colt Sedbrook

Coach Lopez said if it is out there, the pitch will find me. It seems like almost every game I am getting dotted. I got hit in the helmet this time. It was a good thing I was wearing one. There was some ringing in my ears, but it went away.

Ryan Brown

Coach keeps us so well prepared, and we were executing almost perfectly in the first half. We showed a lot of courage to battle back and take control after they made a run at us.

J. Taylor

Cole's just talking -- ain't nobody jealous of no Cole. Cole was running so slow. I was going to try to help him out, but I almost knocked him down. He fell in the end zone, so that's a good thing.

Aaron Green

Colby almost turned it over twice, but he stayed with it. It was a great win.

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Jared Brown

That play was huge for us. Brett was throwing the ball real well. That really set the tone for the game for us.

Jim Smith

That play really energized us back up. I told the kids that we can score quick and I know we can. We can also grind it out too. We drove the ball really well tonight, we just didn't put it in the end zone.

Ozzie Guillen

That play could have cost the game. A ball on the line and a couple of runs are going to score. Ozuna has been playing well for us. He's playing pretty good defense and doing well at the plate.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Edward Menashy

The thing behind it short term, without any doubt, is the merger and acquisition activity.

Bruce Bochy

The thing about Woody is, he can handle it. He'll deal with it better than a younger guy. He knows he'll go out without his best stuff occasionally and put it behind him.

Scott Skiles

I've never been part of a team where that didn't occur at some point. And sometimes behind the scenes is way worse than that.

Mark Ruffalo

I've been able to hide behind the character in Eternal Sunshine . People don't recognize me from Collateral . But this feels more exposed.

Steve Loney

I've always been of a mind-set to play the five best offensive linemen. I think your players need to feel that from you as well. If you're sitting behind Leonard Davis, you can't feel like it's a hopeless situation.

Shameka Christon

I waited my turn and tried to learn as much as I possibly could. I was behind Crystal, and just pretty much learning everything from her. She's a great person to learn from. She's a smart player, a very good player. I'm ready.

Sarah Jamieson

I wanted fast race and if it wasn't fast enough I was prepared to take the lead, but as it turned out I was happy to sit behind the pace. I was on the rail and got boxed in for most of the way and keep my wits about me and wait for the time to come to get out of there.

Ed White

I wanted to give my team the experience that comes with wrestling kids they haven't seen before. They are behind on technique, and we need as many matches as possible.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Dustin Maguire

Spencer's definitely our leader, on and off the court, by example. He doesn't yell. I don't think we need any of that.

Bruce Kasrel

Speed is never guaranteed. There's definitely high tide and low tide.

Jeff Gordon

Once you win more than one, it definitely puts you into an elite group and you are going to be looked upon different. You win one, you are looked at differently. Win two and it takes you to another level.

Warren Sapp

Now it's a pleasure to come to work every day because I get to work on my stuff. I get to sharpen my knife. And when it's sharp, you're going to get cut. Definitely get cut.

Justin Zwick

Now he's helping other receivers on what they're supposed to be doing. He's definitely been polished.

Sam Cowart

Not yet. I think I definitely will, once I walk into the stadium.

Ann Strother

Sometimes you're just going to have games like that for whatever reason. And just for us to be able to kind of push through it and tough it out, it's definitely a good sign. It's a sign of maturity for our team.

Sarah Wheeler

Sonja leads us vocally, but she also leads us by going out on the hill and showing us how to ski down it. She sets a great example, and she definitely showed that today (Thursday). We're going to miss her next year.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played four matches in New Haven, four matches here, so it's been eight matches in two weeks. Hopefully that's enough matches,

Danny Peitz

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Todd Spanier

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

Aaron Rowand

You've got to string hits together at the right time. You could get 16 hits, two hits in eight innings, and not score any runs. It's about getting hits at the right time.

Robert Brown

You should not take a fellow eight years old / And make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Ryan Ghere

You're happy with the tie because you were down by two with eight minutes to go, but you're not happy that you score five goals and only get a tie. Give our girls credit. We never quit.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Calvin Brock

Sam is a very powerful, strong man, ... If he hits you, he hurts you. He can knock out any man on Earth. I can't see any man taking one of those big shots and standing up.

Don Watson

It was a long time coming, but Hinckley-Big Rock hits the win column.

Rashid Johnson

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

William Petersen

That's how television works, you find something that hits and you mass produce it. I understand that. I just didn't want to do it myself.

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Sue Moores

This one hits home for a lot of people.

Jay Brant

We got a lot of hits today in key situations. Today's win was important for us.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Bret Michaels

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

Bobby Sherman

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

Edward Norton

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Patrick Rice

As the season went on, she got better and better.

James Cox

We want to end the season how we started it ? by winning.

Kevin Reilly

This season may not see a turnaround for us.

Matt Fisher

This was it. As a senior, the most important thing to do is to win and keep the season going.

Mark Banker

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Tara VanDerveer

You get to this point, and you don't want the season to end.

Robert Portman

after the appeal, I understand it wouldn't be until the spring of 2006.

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Jane Fonda

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Charles Churchill

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.

Aristotle

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

e. e. cummings

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

e. e. cummings

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Richard Armitage

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Rick Perry

Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Gary Convis

Through this cascading system, we will end up training everyone the same way.

Andy Kindler

I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

Angelo Dundee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.

Rick Moody

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Richard Marcinko

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Mark Zupan

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

John Rawls

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.